Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

Journalists shouldn't be getting the vapors when they learn that governments and companies steer interviews toward reporters they think will provide favorable coverage. They should dig harder -- access is overrated -- and find out why sources are trying to steer the coverage a certain way.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/investigations/what-are-they-hiding-hpd-says-it-will-vet-reporters-2927786/

Another bit of fractal #accidentalArt while filtering chemicals for disposal/recovery. In this case, copper nitrate. Very reminiscent of Escher's hyperbolic images.

Donald Trump fined $10,000 after judge overseeing his civil fraud trial finds he violated a gag order in the case for a second time.

Also, it’s turned on by default:

Howard Zinn: "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

From "The Optimism of Uncertainty" (2004)

@casey @pluralistic Easy: show her one of the many cases where Google now turns complete nonsense into a "featured snippet" - such as this one:

@pluralistic you were a Jeopardy answer last night!

I think about the person who infected my child with covid, beginning a year long decline into severe disabling Long Covid. He was asymptomatic that day. Does he ever think about what he did to my kid? Do others think about the people they may have disabled unknowingly while asymptomatic?

NPR’s data shows that they lost nothing after being ostracized by the psychotic white billionaire. It counters the idea that leaving Twitter is a loss. Let’s dismiss the idea that we need to be held hostage on any platform.

https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/

#NPR #Twitter #SocialMedia #Journalism #Media

More headlines need to end with ", ancient crystal suggests"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/10/23/moon-older-than-thought-apollo-crystals/

Slack follows in Apple’s footsteps. X is dying. It’s obvious. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23930686/slack-x-twitter-integration-retires-api-pricing

Wix fires employee for Gaza support, tells staff to “join a company initiative to create videos and creative campaigns”, to “support Israel’s narrative” … “show Westernity” in posts, as “unlike the Gazans, we look and live like Europeans and Americans”. It’s “very important to emphasise this in texts and images so that they feel close to us”

Internal Wix chat encouraged staff to support Israel’s ‘narrative’ in Hamas conflict

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/10/24/internal-wix-chat-encouraged-staff-to-support-israels-narrative-in-hamas-conflict/

#wix #israel #gaza #ireland #genocide

If you prefer to read things instead of listening (as do I myself; not an audio person ... 😅 ), Physics World has now turned the podcast with me into a written interview:

▶️ https://physicsworld.com/a/victoria-grinberg-the-astrophysicist-sharing-her-love-for-science/

It's about my science, but also about all the things I do as a scientist that are not my science - climate crisis outreach and Astronomers for Planet Earth (@a4e), my art and outreach in general.

#astrodon #scicomm #XraysAreTheBestRays

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite looks like the Windows world’s answer to Apple Silicon

Snapdragon X Elite PCs should begin to arrive in mid-2024, but obstacles remain.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-elite-looks-like-the-windows-worlds-answer-to-apple-silicon/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Last week's lead-crime video inspired many people to tell me about the ABORTION-crime hypothesis, made famous in the book Freakonomics. So, today's video is all about why Roe v Wade probably did NOT reduce crime 20 years later https://skepchick.org/2023/10/did-legalizing-abortion-reduce-crime-20-years-later/

Sometimes during the day today this account jumped the 5k follower mark. Thanks for your interests, I guess? And for not being scared away by my mix of languages and topics :)

A victory for San Franciscans who oppose being guinea pigs in Big Tech's dangerous experiment. Now, we need to get Waymo off our roads too:

The California Department of Motor Vehicles has suspended Cruise from operating its driverless taxis in San Francisco, effective immediately.

The DMV, one of the state’s regulators for self-driving cars, said there is no set expiration for the suspension. At this time, the DMV says the suspension of Cruise’s driverless ops is based on the determination that “the manufacturer’s vehicles are not safe for the public’s operation.”

The DMV’s suspension means that Cruise cannot use its robotaxis without a human driver present, neither for free nor during paid rides. The company is still allowed to test its technology with a safety driver.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/s-f-cruise-driverless-taxis-suspended-18445110.php

Many robocallers don’t pay fines, as FCC still lacks legal power to collect

"Fines go uncollected, and the company dissolves and moves assets elsewhere."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/many-robocallers-dont-pay-fines-as-fcc-still-lacks-legal-power-to-collect/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social